Fintech Payments Engineering Manager — AI-Driven Leader

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Warszawa, Kraków; On-site; PLN 360,000 - 600,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Diversity and international team

Training opportunities

Job summary

InPost is building a lean, highly effective fintech engineering organization in Poland, delivering scalable fintech components and AI-native tooling. The Engineering Manager will mentor 4–5 senior engineers, shape the quarterly roadmap with product management, and ensure end-to-end delivery with strong architectural direction.

You will promote agentic engineering, drive data-driven delivery metrics, and lead incident post-mortems to continuously improve reliability in a fast-growing fintech

Qualifications

• 7+ years of backend software development experience.
• 2+ years in people leadership (direct management of engineers).
• 2+ years in the payments or fintech product domain.
• Very good command of English (B2+).
• Strong architecture and code review involvement.
• Experience with delivery management: sprint planning, dependency tracking, risk management, and DORA metrics.
• Product ownership mindset and roadmap shaping in collaboration with Product Management.
• University degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field.
• Proficiency in leveraging AI tools to accelerate development.
• Data-driven management with metrics like cycle time and deployment frequency.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the team
• Co-author the product roadmap
• Own delivery end-to-end
• Provide technical leadership and uphold standards
• Drive AI-first, agentic team culture
• Own incident response and post-mortems

Skills

Backend development

People leadership

Fintech domain

English (B2+)

Architecture & code review

Delivery management

Product ownership

AI tooling

Data-driven management

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS

Job description

InPost is building a lean, highly effective fintech engineering organization in Poland, delivering scalable fintech components and AI-native tooling. The Engineering Manager will mentor 4–5 senior engineers, shape the quarterly roadmap with product management, and ensure end-to-end delivery with strong architectural direction.

You will promote agentic engineering, drive data-driven delivery metrics, and lead incident post-mortems to continuously improve reliability in a fast-growing fintech